DVD not detected/s​hows and disappears

I have a Toshiba Satellite in which I purchased in October 2009.(No hardware upgrades since I purchased it). I originally had Vista and upgraded to Windows 7 when it first came out (I think in February?). I also have a desktop so don't usually use the DVD drive on this laptop too often, but it wasn't until over the summer of 2010 where I noticed that the drive on this laptop would go in and out. It was originally set as my D: drive then all of a sudden it becomes my G: drive and still comes and go. I went into "Computer Management" to put the drive letter setting back to D, so that solved that problem.
I can put a disc in there and sometimes it'll recognize it sometimes it won't. It does it as it pleases I guess and same goes for burning. I had Itunes and PowerISO and cleanly uninstalled those programs mentioned in other forums. I don't have current links but it had something to do with the upper and lower filters. I also used Microsoft Fix-It (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461) and that helps every once in a while but is temporary and sometimes stays for a few minutes and sometimes gives me an error.
I also tried this fix:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2615
I already read this link:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Windows-Vista-Windows​-XP/DVD-drive-does-not-show-up/m-p/111151
I put in my Windows 7 Home installation disc and chose repair and it said windows did not recognize any problems to repair.
I also just did the Toshiba Application installer to see if it was a driver issue and restarted and same thing. I'm exhausted that of trying to find answers for this.
If someone can help that would be great! It's really just annoying to go back and wait to do stuff on my desktop when I use my laptop most of my time!
Thanks!!!!
Toshiba Satellite L505D-s5965
*AMD Athlon x2 dual-Core 2.1 GHZ
*3GB RAM
*Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit

I think it's solved...at least for now:
So I used a combination of the "Toshiba Application Installer" this I guess (re)installed the correct driver.
Then following the troubleshoot app in the control panel for hardware:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-t​he-Hardware-and-Devices-troubleshooter
It went through the scan and it gave me a "yellow triangle" and still said device driver was damaged/missing. But I restarted and everything is working fine so far. Showed up on explorer and....
...well, I think I just spoke to soon, cause it just disappeared again. This is so bizarre...
...well, it just showed up again! Geez my drive is schizo! blah!
I just checked error code 10 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943104) and did Mr. Fix It. of course it's not recognizing any problems cause my drive shows up while it's checking!

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